Fediverse

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cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/3509989...

There’s a crucial difference between federatable and federated.

over at lemmy.ml/post/2920188

Is lemmy.world down? When I tried to open it, the websites says "...

An in-depth report reveals an ugly truth about isolated, unmoderated parts of the Fediverse. It's a solvable problem, with challenges.

There are a few fundamentally broken things about how Mastodon posts work that are terrible vectors for abuse, as well as being bad for basic usability. Maybe they are fixable, I don't know. To be clear: I am a fan of Mastodon. I have been enjoying my time there much more than I ever enjoyed Twitter or Facebook or Instagram. And...

Love Reddit but tired of what's happening to it? We check out Lemmy and Kbin, two open-source fediverse alternatives that are growing fast.

Akkoma is an active fork of Pleroma, which implements ActivityPub protocol underneath and serves an interface similar to microblogging platforms such as Twitter or Tumblr. It implements a complete Mastodon client API, so all Mastodon clients work with it without trouble, even the Mastodon web UI can be installed and used with...

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2693464...

Most critical of the bugs allowed attackers to root federated instances.

Meta’s adoption of ActivityPub could expose a lot more people to the power, and perils, of decentralized social networks..

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In the typical web marketing infrastructure, a company signs up for an email account for private messages, Twitter/X account for microblogging, YouTube account for video sharing, and Reddit for forum discussion....

#не_взлетит #Rddit-alternative #kbin.social #Threadiverse https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/wiki/Admin-Bare-Metal-Guide https://www.symfonystation.com/kbin - зобанели Россиюшку == пидарасы https://kbin.pub/en https://kbin.social/all https://fedia.io/microblog https://i.imgur.com/t3hUaQ3.png...

As the social media landscape ebbs and flows, the team at BBC Research & Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for the BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the distributed collection of social networks known as the Fediverse, a collection of social media applications...

The BBC has launched its own “experimental” Mastodon server, marking one of the first major news outlets to establish an instance on the Twitter alternative. You can access the server at social.bbc, which encompasses posts from a handful of BBC accounts, including BBC Radio 4, BBC Taster, BBC Research & Development, and a...

cross-posted from: toast.ooo/post/232185...

Extinction looms for FTAV’s Mastodon presence

We Distribute is bringing in a new feature - The Mixtape! We create playlists of songs that broadcast through Radio Free Fedi, and share it with the wider fediverse. It’s an opportunity for people to discover music by Fedizens, and help support artists on the network....

Some thoughts about using the Microblog functionality in kbin and why, controversially, I think it might actually beat Mastodon at it's own game - browsing toots....

Hi! 👋 Here's our #introduction. We're BBC Research & Development; we explore and test new technology to discover how the BBC can best make use of it in the future. For 100 years our engineers have been at the forefront of developments in broadcasting. We're now researching how everyone could get TV & radio via the internet...

I’ve seen a few posts lately in my feed coming from this community with links to pictures of underaged girls marked NSFW....

A small group of people were offended by a joke that unintentionally came across transphobic, and as a result this persons account was blacklisted. Even after getting the account reinstated, there were lasting complications with the state of the account (these probably technical issues) and the account was basically lost for...